In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information ...

The scale of Facebook’s data harvesting and tracking has been exposed this year, by whistleblowers and Apple’s privacy crack down. Now Facebook has been rated “the worst company of the year” in a new ...

With iOS 14.5 released to the public earlier this year, iPhone and iPad users now have the ability to easily opt out of cross-site and cross-app tracking and targeting. New data from analytics firm ...

A stark new warning for almost all iPhone users, as Facebook is suddenly caught “secretly” harvesting sensitive data without anyone realizing. And worse, there’s no way to stop this especially ...

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Facebook has launched a new feature that will allow the popular social media platform to track even more of your online activity, and we can help you turn it off. It’s no secret that social media ...

Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union objecting to Meta’s behavioral advertising can easily ask for their data not to being used for its consentless tracking-and-profiling thanks to a ...

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Facebook’s ability to track users and show them certain ads appears to be tanking thanks to Apple’s “ask not to track” feature, according to some advertisers. Apple rolled out the privacy prompt in ...

If you ever get that eerie feeling Facebook or Instagram is listening to you, you’re not entirely hallucinating. Facebook says it’s not literally activating the microphones on our smartphones, but it ...

If you visit a website you see on Facebook and Instagram, you've likely noticed that you're not redirected to your browser of choice but rather a custom in-app browser. It turns out that those ...

The social network tests two new features for a user's news feed and deploys a new way to track ads. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's ...